State of the Union address

Andra Rush, CEO of Wayne-based Rush Trucking Inc., will be among the guests sitting in Michelle Obama's viewing box at tonight's State of the Union Address.

General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra also will be among the two dozen guests of the first lady. Rush and Barra exemplify the themes and ideals that will be laid out in the address, according to The White House Blog.

Mary Barra

Rush, a descendant of the Mohawk Tribe from the Six-Nation Reservation, founded Rush Truckingin 1984.

In 2012, she became the leader of the area's largest woman-owned, minority auto supplier, Detroit Manufacturing Systems LLC, a joint venture between Rush and Faurecia SA.